About all I remember from Haig was the famous "I'm in charge" line. I don't even know WHY he would even be doing a Press Conference instead of a press secretary. Either way, he served in government a long time. RIP General!

Originally posted by StaggerLeeAbout all I remember from Haig was the famous "I'm in charge" line. I don't even know WHY he would even be doing a Press Conference instead of a press secretary. Either way, he served in government a long time. RIP General!

Because the president's press secretary was shot as well. and he said "I'm in control here" - because Bush was out of town as well. I believe he was currently in the air on the way back to DC when Dutch was shot.

We'll be back right after order has been restored here in the Omni Center.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy - Swift

Originally posted by StaggerLeeAbout all I remember from Haig was the famous "I'm in charge" line. I don't even know WHY he would even be doing a Press Conference instead of a press secretary. Either way, he served in government a long time. RIP General!

Because the president's press secretary was shot as well. and he said "I'm in control here" - because Bush was out of town as well. I believe he was currently in the air on the way back to DC when Dutch was shot.

Originally posted by StaggerLeeAbout all I remember from Haig was the famous "I'm in charge" line. I don't even know WHY he would even be doing a Press Conference instead of a press secretary. Either way, he served in government a long time. RIP General!

Because the president's press secretary was shot as well. and he said "I'm in control here" - because Bush was out of town as well. I believe he was currently in the air on the way back to DC when Dutch was shot.

I get that it was largely blown out of proportion, but I still found it amusing the way he said he'd "check" with Bush in case anything happened. Haig's contempt for Bush (which came out pretty clearly in the 88 primaries) was already on display there...

At the request of the PM, the governor-general has pulled the plug on the current government, and we have another election to look forward to. It'll be an interesting race; as we have two new players to the race: